After listening to Zhu Youjian's words, Zhu Chunchen really felt like he wanted to cry without tears - of course he didn't want to be the master of a guard outside the border wall of Ji Town!

What Zhu Chunchen wanted, such as hereditary power, permanent rule, and having to eat the food and salary of a single guard... were not what Zhu Chunchen wanted. He was not his ancestor Zhu Neng, so he was not that capable, nor was he that ambitious.

Zhu Chunchen just wanted to be a free-spirited nobleman of Beijing. Even if he couldn't become a general and couldn't get a quota, he would be satisfied as long as he could live a stable life in Beijing and eat the capital embezzled by his ancestors. Got it!

But the little emperor of the Zhu family is so capable... He has only been the emperor for more than a year, and he has made Zhu Guobi, Zhao Zhilong, and Xu Yunzhen loyal and loyal, and Li Shouqi seems to be on the verge of becoming a benevolent one.

I am lucky, and I am still intact for the time being, but whether I will be so lucky next time, only God knows. If I don’t agree now, I’m afraid I will have to be forced by the little emperor to go to the battlefield tomorrow to become a loyal martyr!

"My...my heart is indeed moved!" Zhu Chunchen had no choice but to turn his heartache into a heartbeat in order not to act like a loyal hero.

"Okay!" Zhu Youjian nodded approvingly, "I will give your family a hereditary and irreplaceable military and civilian commander... As long as your family can recruit 1,000 military households to cultivate outside the wall, I will give you With the salary of 1,000 households, your family will be allowed to use 300,000 acres of cultivated land outside the wall. Cheng Guogong, can you attract 1,000 military households?"

"I, I will go and think of a solution. I will definitely bring these 1,000 military households here." Zhu Chunchen nodded repeatedly.

Pulling 1,000 households around Gyeonggi to colonize outside the wall was really a trivial matter for a noble man like Zhu Chunchen.

This is not the seventeenth year of Chongzhen. The population around Beijing has dropped sharply due to war and plague. It is still the first year of Chongzhen, and there is still peace within the border wall. There are many households without land and industry at the feet of the emperor.

Moreover, Chengguofu itself is a big landowner and also runs "small loans". There are more than thousands of poor farmers who owe Chengguofu usury money and would have to work as cattle or horses for a lifetime. As long as Chengguofu is willing to exempt some With interest, this group of "certain white laborers" will have to work hard to farm the land!

"Just being able to pull people is not enough," Zhu Youjian went on to say, "You also have to equip the strong men who are pulled out with equipment and train them rigorously to become garrison troops! I will give your family a military salary of 1,000 soldiers. , including silver and grain, converted into silver, it is 30,000 taels a year. This is not free, your family has troops to fight for me!

In addition, your family has to build an acropolis outside the wall... If this acropolis is taken away by the Northern and Eastern captives, it will be the responsibility of losing the land!"

Zhu Chunchen was no longer distressed, but his heart was bleeding.

The little emperor didn't "confer" a guard to his family. He basically asked the Chengguo government to send someone to pay to go to the court to occupy a stronghold outside the border wall. When all kinds of Tatars came, they had to defend the city for the little emperor!

Zhu Youjian paused, and then said: "But it's not enough for you to be moved by yourself alone! You have to mobilize more guards to open up outside the wall... I will give you 9 more guards. For the quota, you are responsible for recruiting people. If you recruit a duke, the marquis will be granted the title of military and civilian commander. The earl you recruit will be granted the title of a thousand military and civilian households.

These guards and posts are actually just titles. Regardless of whether they are guards or posts, they all have 1,000 troops and 300,000 acres of land. The guard posts do not govern each other. Above the guard posts, there will be another garrison office. .A garrison office has jurisdiction over 10 garrison posts. Cheng Guogong, if you can recruit 9 garrison posts, I will grant you another garrison.

In addition, this time I have given you all the remaining 30,000 troops of the Beijing Camp! There will be no three major battalions of the Beijing Camp in the future!"

Zhu Youjian wanted to engage in true feudalism in the mountainous areas of Yanshan and Liaoxi, so of course he had to control the scale. A feudal lord owned 1,000 military households and 300,000 acres of land that could be reclaimed (hills that could not be reclaimed were not included), so the scale was pretty good.

Moderate. If 5,600 households are sealed off, it would be too big.

In Yanshan, a critical territory close to Beijing, if a feudal military guard with 5,600 households failed, the losses would be huge. If it was done too well, it would be too dangerous.

So he simply came up with a one-size-fits-all "thousand-household system" and issued 30 thousand-household (guard posts) to Beijing nobles. At the same time, he also wrote off all the 120,000 soldiers recruited by the Beijing camp - the 120,000 soldiers recruited by the Beijing camp.

The salary is more than 3 million a year. The 30,000 soldiers in the 30 guard posts outside the wall total a salary of 900,000. Each time they go in and out, they can save more than 2 million...

Zhu Chunchen patted his chest and assured Zhu Youjian: "I will definitely win over nine noble families for Your Majesty!"

This is actually not difficult.

Because the accounts of the soldiers in the Beijing camp have been settled, there are only 30,000 people on the account, and the dead, seriously wounded and deserters have reported 60,000 to 70,000! Among them, the majority are deserters... What are we waiting for if we don't disband such an army? Now give

The honorable nobles have 30,000 troops, and allowing them to go outside the wall to develop is already an extremely generous gesture.

If the noble families in Beijing cannot secure a place in the guard house, they will be left idle and fall into decline step by step!

Zhu Youjian then asked Zu Dashou, who was squinting to one side and pretending to be transparent: "Zu Dashou, are you excited?"

"Your Majesty, of course I am moved!"

Zu Dashou was actually not too tempted. He still preferred to maintain the status quo and continue to take up short quotas in western Liaoning.

But the little emperor is so fierce!

The little emperor really dared to take the lead, charging into the battle to kill people, and even defeated a cavalry team of 2,000 red flags! In the world of emperors, this kind of bravery can only be compared to Master Chengmiao of the Ming Dynasty and Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty. Zu

Dashou has no guts to go against such a "murderous master".

Moreover, Zu Dashou was more enthusiastic about going outside the wall than Zhu Chunchen. Although his ancestor was also an old brother of Zhu Yuanzhang (although Zhu Yuanzhang killed many great heroes, he was still very kind to those old brothers who did not threaten his own world).

, there are more than 500 guards and more than 2,000 stations in the country, which are actually the territory given to the old brothers), but they have not yet reached the level of Xungui. Therefore, they were given the title of Ningyuan Guard and became a military branch of the Ming Dynasty.

The aristocracy was passed down to Zu Dashou's grandfather Zu Ren and his father Zu Chengxun for two generations. The Ningyuan ancestral family was already a powerful one with a large number of people. Zu Ren and Zu Chengxun had also reached the rank of general soldier and stood on the throne.

The peak of the border town generals. But by Zu Dashou's generation, taking advantage of the collapse of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong and the opportunities of Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan to spend money desperately in western Liaoning, the Ningyuan ancestral family had developed into a feudal warlord.

Of course, the feudal warlords need territory, and because Xiong Tingbi gathered two million and hundreds of thousands of Liaodong refugees into Shanhaiguan after the defeat of Guangning, most of them are living in difficulty. If they can be given land in the western Liaoning valley,

You can definitely recruit refugees who can't survive in the customs to work as farmers.

Zhu Youjian looked at Zu Dashou and said, "Zu Qing, how many thousand households should I give you?"

"Chen..." Zu Dashou was asked by Zhu Youjian and found something was wrong.

We have a lot of troops! How many troops are needed? In addition, we still have a lot of vacancies!

Thinking of this, Zu Dashou had no choice but to look at Yuan Chonghuan asking for help.

Yuan Chonghuan's face was solemn. He knew that the uncles in western Liaoning were not useless Beijing camps... If they wanted to check their accounts, they would have to find out the mutiny. Then he, the governor, would not be able to protect them!

"Your Majesty," Yuan Chonghuan quickly came out and said, "Liao Town and Shanhaiguan Town have a total of 120,000 troops and more than 4 million in pay, all of which are raised by Kaizhongfa..."

"Oh." Zhu Youjian nodded and said with a smile, "There are so many troops in Liao Town and Shanhaiguan Town! Yuan Qing, if not, Liao Town will be moved to western Liaoning, and Shanhaiguan Town and Ji Town will be merged.

I also sealed 30 thousand-household settlements outside the wall for the generals of Jizhen after the merger, and paid 30,000 soldiers... This food and salary does not have to come from Kaizhong. And the remaining soldiers and generals of Jizhen,

Together with Liaoxi Town, they are all supported by Kaizhongfa. As for Ji and Liao Towns, they are all under the control of Yuan Qing. Yuan Qing will be the governor of Ji Liao and sit in charge of Shanhaiguan! What do you think of Yuan Qing?"

Finally became the governor of Ji Liao! And he also secured a vacancy for a group of Liao Town military leaders!

Yuan Chonghuan was overjoyed and immediately kowtowed to thank him and accepted the errand of Governor Ji Liao.

Zhu Youjian then said: "Zu Dashou, you are still the commander-in-chief of Liaoxi... There are also 30 thousand-household residences sealed outside the Liaoxi wall. You can discuss the military pay and soldier quota with Governor Yuan."

"I accept the decree." Zu Dashou breathed a sigh of relief - he can continue to take advantage of the empty quota! And he can also get the land in the mountainous area of ​​​​western Liaoning. This is a great opportunity!

"Zhao Shujiao!" Zhu Youjian called Zhao Shujiao's name again, who was a little uneasy - this time the slave thieves broke through his defense zone!

"I'm here."

"On top of the 60 guard posts and 6 garrison offices outside the walls of Ji Town, there must be a general military office. You can be the general military commander of Yanshan Town!" Zhu Youjian said, "I will recruit 15,000 more soldiers for Yanshan Town.
Chapter completed!